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Pretty much, yeah. It was available but not very many people used it.

To expand on Magic being "hackable": The game is this way because every rule of the game can be changed by a card. There are no set in stone rules in the sense that they will always apply the same way no matter the gamestate - there are cards that say "You can't win the game" or "End the turn", "Skip the upkeep phase", etc. The game isn't just about playing by the rules effectively, it's also about changing the rules effectively and dealing with how your opponent is doing the same. I think a related reason the game exploded is the fact that design (deckbuilding) is an integral part. Having a hackable game is great, but if the hackableness is random it's not that exciting. It's when you can design an exploit (deck) and improve on it that it gets really exciting.

To me, the main reason Magic is fun is the variety of skills and approaches it encourages. You can play it as several different resource management games: there are at least 4 important resources to manage (time, mana, cards, life) and you can win by focus on getting one or more of these resources more or by preventing your opponent from having/using any resources, and all of those decisions have major impacts on your play and deckbuilding style. You can also play it as a game of assembling your crazy exploit of the rules fast enough to win (combo decks), or you might even be able to exploit the rules so hard you're essentially playing a different game from your opponent, so you have a completely different win condition to achieve (legacy Dredge).

I'd agree, but they certainly know what they're talking about so I don't really mind. They obviously did some form of software development at Nvidia if only as an intern.

Reminds me of this Koan:

Sen no Rikyu, a tea-master, wished to hang a flower basket on a column. he asked a carpenter to help him, directing the man to place it a little higher or lower, to the right or left, until he had found exactly the right spot. "That's the place," said Sen no Rikyu finally.

The carpenter, to test the master, marked the spot and then pretended he had forgotten. Was this the place? "Was this the place, perhaps?" the carpenter kept asking, pointing to various places on the column.

But so accurate was the tea-master's sense of proportion that it was not until the carpenter reached the identical spot again that its location was approved.

from here: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans

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This was a great article, but the "This site uses cookies" warning struck me as a little disingenuous. It seems like there's a choice to not accept cookies, but if you click "Decline" it just kicks you out to Google. It's nice that they ask but the options really should be "Accept" or "Leave". Maybe this is standard, I usually just ignore those things.

I think at least part of it is because the people on HN enjoy solving problems so much. When there's a post that says "we solved this problem", a lot of people here (me included) think "great, what's the next problem to solve". The focus is on "the next problem to solve" more than the "great", sometimes to the degree that the "great" is completely ignored. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but it can get grating. It reminds me a lot of a part of the essay "How to ask questions the smart way"[0] by Eric Raymond:

Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give offence. Rather, it's the product of the direct, cut-through-the-bullshit communications style that is natural to people who are more concerned about solving problems than making others feel warm and fuzzy

It's not quite the same, but it comes from the same cut-through-the-bullshit attitude.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Wether you're right or not, I've noticed that a common clickbait title strategy is to make sure that the title is technically correct. In this case, a higher ld50 would mean weed is "safer" in the sense that it's harder to overdose. But it's already nearly impossible to OD on weed so that doesn't really mean much, and it certainly isn't what the title implies. This way, when you read it and the article is different than the title it almost feels like your fault for interpreting the title in the wrong manner instead of theirs for push an article about something few people care about.

I like this idea, but if you decide to go ahead and make it a regular thing you should indicate that it's a repost somehow, or maybe have an "Editors Pick" tab with the chosen stories.

I noticed it's changed now, so for histories sake the title I was responding to was "How a Snowdenista hid the leaker in a Russian airport" or something very close to that.

It should be Sarah Harrison, this title is fucking terrible

Probably not without some clever engineering, fast wood isn't very sturdy.

I don't know about dev, but here are three linux computer/laptop companies in descending order of how nice their websites look:

https://system76.com/

https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/

The dictionary is just a JSON blob[0], but yeah, a readme would be nice

0: https://github.com/serverdensity/Fluffify/blob/master/fluffi...

I've no excuse other than commenting when I shouldn't

You totally should've made that comment, look what came from it. You learned something new, and so did a bunch of other people.

It's possible they gave him some medication that nobody knew he was allergic to and by time they caught it it was too late. It's also possible that someone fucked up and didn't read his chart before a procedure. Or it might be something completely different. I don't know if this'll help the fear, but this is one of those crazy random ways you can die and there's not a whole lot (aside from having an up to date and complete chart) that you can do about it. The only thing being afraid of it does is lower your quality of life.

I don't think so, red has a smaller wavelength than the other colors we see, but I don't think that could translate into us seeing it faster (whatever that even means).

It's pretty rare to see red in nature that isn't blood or fire, and when you do it's often on dangerous things (like those frogs in the amazon). Maybe red is so striking to us because red things in nature are things we need to pay attention to?

They don't mind if DWM is only ever used by a handful of people if only a handful of people agree with the principles behind it.

To be fair, Zen is much less a religion than Christianity, some would even call it a philosophy.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but the way he tells it he literally makes up random stuff that looks good and tosses it in there, so I guess his subconscious?

I have a friend who's an artist, and he loves putting random weird things or vague symbology that doesn't particularly mean anything it his pictures. People always assume it does mean something, but since it's so vague (and he never tells them what it "means") they can never nail down exactly what it is. He's always praised as a deep and thoughtful artist because of it, and I think it's directly responsible for much of his success.

There are ways to solve captchas somewhat reliably programatically. I suspect this plugin only works on certain computer generated captchas, not the street sign ones.

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/introduction-to-automa...

Just because you can pull out three (or any number) examples of shitty laws doesn't mean he's wrong.

The users that don't care are almost always the users buying the smallest (personal) amounts, and they usually don't care because they know if they get scammed or it gets lost they only lost $30. The customers who want larger quantities very much do care, and they're the ones who spend real cash.

Furthermore it's pretty common for a dealer who has a good enough reputation to start requiring early finalization. Most of the reason people still used SR2 is it was the easiest place to find their favorite vendor, and the lack of escrow didn't matter because you trust him and/or he requires FE no matter what the market.

As for why people will use OB (I have no idea if they will), cops aren't the only thing to worry about when buying drugs on the darknet (in fact they're close to the bottom of the list). Several marketplaces (including SR2) have been hacked and had all the users money stolen, and a couple have just disappeared with everyone's money. I suspect the selling point will be more like: "Hackers and corrupt admins won't be able to steal your money! Plus it's never down! Plus it's harder to get arrested!".

I noticed that if you walk into a level boundary and hold jump Mario jumps again before he lands on the ground, allowing him to jump up the wall

While I agree, poor minorities may be the most frequently punished, but they are by no means the only ones.

Really? Do you have a source?

What the hell? I wonder why that's the case. I can see why they wouldn't have time or money to fix it, but why is it that way in the first place?

Yeah but that's most national mainstream news sources. I just hope they learn from their mistake.

I read the papers in the OP and the paper someone linked for you (you're the lazy one, not everyone else) and I still agree with the OP. I suspect you didn't read the papers in the OP because you're not talking about the same things the OP is. The raising the speed limit example is completely irrelevant to the OP's point - we should make certain urban roads narrower because that makes them more friendly to pedestrians and cyclists without making them more dangerous. You can bitch all you want but until you start discussing the article in a reasonable way you're going to get downvoted. Perhaps if HN pisses you off so much you should find a different community to participate in?